Yellow is the color for June in the rainbow scraps challenge. The most challenging thing for me about working with yellow scraps is that, like others, I just don't have many of them. I enjoyed making the small pink yo-yos last month (for a project that is not yet finished) so I thought I'd make some yellow flowers using the Clover tool–purchased at a quilt show a long, long time ago, but never used . . . until now.
Here are my first efforts.
I was thinking of black-eyed Susans when I added big black beads to the centers . . . even though these flowers really look nothing like them. My idea was to chain them together and use them as a hatband for a wide brimmed straw hat that I'm cleaning up and re-working, but once they were in place, I didn't like it :-(
I'll wait for some new inspiration.
While I like the Clover tool, I don't think I'll be makng more flowers from quilting cotton. I think it would be wonderful to use with a silk chiffon, a handkerchief linen or other lightweight fabric. The flowers finish around 1 3/4 inch wide. I also bought the smaller 1 1/4 flower tool.
On a more successful note, I removed the blocking wires and T-pins from my shawl (Grace helped) and I am quite happy with the result. 
World Wide Knit in Public Day is being celebrated this week–I haven't heard of any public knitting events near me, but I'll be casting on a new project soon and being on the lookout for kindred knitters.
